Author: S.P. Gon Chaudhuri
Publisher: Tata Energy Research Institute, TERI
Keywords: sundarbans, energy, renewable
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 817993120X
ISBN-13: 9788179931202

Offers detailed insight into the renewable energy programme initiated in the Sundarbans islands in the early 1990s.

Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: sundarbans, tigers, eating, man
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0618494901
ISBN-13: 9780618494903

Along the Bay of Bengal, between the countries of India and Bangladesh, stretches a strange and beautiful landscape—part ocean, part river, part forest. This is the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, and it is home to more tigers than anywhere else on the earth. Nowhere else do tigers live in a mangrove swamp. Nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people. Yet about three hundred people a year are killed by the tigers of the Sundarbans. And no one knows why.

Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: sundarbans, eaters, man, tiger, spell
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 160358059X
ISBN-13: 9781603580595

A book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on earth where tigers routinely eat people—swimming silently behind small boats at night to drag away fishermen, snatching honey collectors and woodcutters from the forest. But, unlike in other parts of Asia where tigers are rapidly being hunted to extinction, tigers in the Sundarbans are revered. With the skill of a naturalist and

Author: K. Asim Mandal
Publisher: Indus Publishing Company
Keywords: analysis, development, india, sundarbans
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8173871434
ISBN-13: 9788173871436

This volume highlights the importance of this area from historical, geographical, economic, social and development points of views.